Sheesh, at this rate it'll be weeks before we start the Survival challenge. People are still welcome to join (or write -- and what I said last week about being good about tying in to other people's skits, I've been looking through the old stuff and that's not really true, sigh), although I'm not going to try to write everyone into every skit. All comments are welcome. Heck, *any* comments are welcome as you guys are quieter than church mice.

You know, looking through the old CRS posts, there's that rather disturbing trend that most skit stories went unfinished. Other than Erin Hunt, who took a year to finish her Thanksgiving skit, I don't see any other finished stories. Anyone (other than the authors, who shall remain nameless) remember Out of Bounds, the Winter Olympics, Man on a Mission, Descent Into... (oh, actually Wight did finish that), or Oregon Trailfest '98? Not that I'm not also at fault, as there is the whole Heresy captured by Club Pain plot I haven't finished (and at this point I probably won't be able to finish it on-screen). Oh well, times change.

-- Kevin (This skit isn't that funny either...)

She leaves him notes on the refrigerator
He phones in messages to say he's working late
So hard to find a tender moment together
So many modern ways to miscommunicate
Guess every honey moon has an expiration date

~ Sherrie Austin, "Love in the Real World".

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Gerry Tentler (GT) is showing Jason Blevins (JB) his new pad.

JB: So this is your new apartment.

GT: Yup. Had it specially built after the Goddess burned down my last one.

JB: Oh yeah, the annual Burning House celebration. It sure is a great time.

GT: For everyone except me and my flat.

JB: Isn't the sacrificial house picked randomly each year?

GT: Well, after my place has been picked "randomly" for the last three years, I'm starting to suspect a conspiracy.

JB: You and Oliver Stone.

GT: Eh?

JB: Err, you used a lot of stone.

GT: Exactly. My intention is to have a totally fireproof home.

JB: Marble furniture?

GT: I was going for a classically Roman feel--

JB: That explains the Ionic columns.

GT: --although sleeping on a concrete bed is a killer.